eye dialects

A form of eye dialect — Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of eye dialect
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